Appeal No. 2002-2336
Application 09/081,765
objected to by the examiner as being dependent upon a rejected
base claim, but are indicated to be allowable if rewritten in
independent form.
As noted on page 1 of the specification, appellants’
invention relates to a machinery unit with a heat barrier that
separates a part that is hot during operation from a cool part of
the machinery unit, while fastening means hold the two parts
together and a flux of force is created between the two parts
through one or more force transmitting elements. More
particularly, appellants invention is directed to using metal
force transmitting elements (e.g., 9 in Fig. 1) positioned
between the hot (3, 5) and cool (2, 6) parts of the machinery
unit, which elements have a minimal cross-sectional area that is
sufficient for the transmission of the force. A copy of
independent claim 1, representative of appellants’ invention, can
be found in the Appendix to appellants’ brief (Paper No. 20).
The prior art references of record relied upon by the
examiner in rejecting the appealed claims are:
Kozdon 3,572,982 Mar. 30, 1971
Franke et al. (Franke) 5,626,460 May 6, 1997
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